meite MT7116LN Pneumatic Upholstery Stapler 22 Gauge 71 Series 3/8" Crown 1/4" to 5/8" Length Long Nose Stapler

I'm in the process of redesigning/repairing our ailing sofa. When it came time to put the fabric back on, I tried using my hand stapler with no success. After some searching I decided on a long-nose upholstery staple gun for my air compressor. WOW! This Meite gun is fantastic. Easy to load. Easy to use. I did have a number of misfires the first time I used it. Not sure if was the gun or my learning curve. I was firing like a pro very quickly. I really did hate to have to buy a tool that I might not use very often, but it was well worth it. I'm using Senco 3/8 x 3/8 staples, simply because they had a 5k box and I knew I wouldn't need more than that for my projects. The different brand works great.vI'm using the gun with my Porter-Cable Pancake air compressor. I'm very pleased with this Meile long-nose upholstery gun and highly recommend it.

The media could not be loaded. This review is for the Meite MT7116LN, long nose stapler that shoots very thin, 71 series, 22 gauge staples. I used 3/8" long staples to finish this project.Disclaimer; I am not an upholsterer. However I have done upholstery. But this chair was by far the most difficult thing I've recovered. I initially stapled all the fabric with an Arrow T50 pneumatic stapler that worked just fine. It uses big, fat 18 gauge T50 staples.But... when it came time to install the double piping, (sewn on my hand cranked, Singer model 28, manufactured in 1894, with a special foot made just for piping!), those big, fat staples were making a mess of things. And there were places I just couldn't reach with the snubnose Arrow.So I was making lame excuses why the chair was taking so long, and how badly it was turning out, and the wife asked me why I wasn't using a long nose staple gun with thinner staples? Because I literally have nearly every tool known to man.Well, uh, I didn't have a long nose, fine gauge staple gun. Heck, I didn't even know these things existed. I mean, I never saw one at my local hardware store.But she watches those silly design shows that fill your head with insider knowledge. So she educated me in the esoterica of the upholsterer's art.So I hopped onto algors amazing internet, clicked open Jeff's gift to online shoppers, and found a plethora of staplers. (That's also where I got that nifty double piping sewing foot that I also didn't know existed. But I discovered that all by myself! Amazingly, you can still buy brand new accessories for these antique,19th century machines!)Back to staplers, now!Whoa! There are so many staple guns! Many of them are cheaper. Many of them include staples. Many of them have huge heads. This particular Meite is none of those. It's kinda pricey for a hobbyist, it doesn't include free staples, and it has a really compact body. And, it also has really, really good reviews!What really hooked me was I read a review that compared this stapler to BEA. I've never used BEA, but that guy had, he staples lots of stuff, and liked this one just as much as the BEA. Well, that review is what steered me towards this stapler.Sure, I wanted to save money and get the cheaper offerings, but I also wanted to get this chair finished with a minimum of hassle or issues! Amateur workmanship is one thing. Constant mechanical failure is another!And I gotta say, it probably does work just as good as a BEA, because it worked perfectly for me.Granted, I've only shot less than 1000 staples through it, and I'm finally finished with the chair, so I can't give a longer term review. But I can say that for me, it performed flawlessly! And the compact dimensions made it really easy to maneuver around tight spaces! Also, it has rear exhaust by the air input, so no issues with blowing compressor air on your project.Overall, it's a big win for performance, if you don't mind the extra coin to cover the higher price.If you made it this far, you're a trooper! Or really bored!

This is a professional grade stapler, the long nose is very helpful in tight areas, this was my first attempt at upholstery and it turned out great using this stapler. Was kind of bummed because it didn’t come with staples and had to order separately and they came 3 days after the gun came…definitely not the staple guns fault!

Use alot and works well but every so often slide hangs up and you have to turn upside down than tap on counter to continue so a little annoying

The staple gun has worked great for me but I’ve only had it for about a week

Nice staple gun... especially for the money I paid for it!

I also purchased the version of this with the shorter nose, and it worked quite nicely. And, I purchased a similar pneumatic stapler from Sailrite, again, with the shorter nose. This MT7116LN, when run with a pressure of between 50 and 80 psi tended to not even shoot a staple! More so, nearer to 50 lbs. This was very frustrating. It tended to actually shoot a staple more often when operated closer to 80 psi. But, at this higher pressure, the staples tended to be shot so hard that the top of the staple would cut into the vinyl fabric that I was using! If I backed off of the pressure to about 70 to 75 psi, it would shoot a staple more often. Under 60 psi, it would fail to shoot a staple more than half of the time. Very frustrating. At least a non-fired staple is easy to recover from. The real problem is that this would JAM a staple about 8% of the time. And that's really annoying, for I had to open it up and pry the jammed staple out of the "beak" of this stapler, which could take a few minutes. So, I used it in only those few spots where I really needed the long nose. If my window for return hadn't expired, I'd return it. The jamming and not-shooting-a-staple is a significant failure and makes this gun extraordinarily frustrating to use. Perhaps mine is defective?? The short nosed version works rather well, as long as you keep the pressure at about 65 to 70 psi. I never had the short-nosed one fail to shoot a staple nor do I remember the short-nosed one ever jamming. Same with the short-nosed pneumatic stapler that I purchased from Sailrite. (Totally different staples used in the Sailrite stapler: much wider.)